"I just look at her in disgust. … It's almost funny, that she's like, 46 years old, and she's battling a 19 year old, and I'm winning. And I'm telling the truth. She's lying and losing. … If you look at her face, she's got — she's really — you can tell her mind's going 100 miles an hour when Oprah asked her those Levi questions. … I've got a lot more knowledge and credibility than she gives me credit for."
—Levi Johnston discusses Sarah Palin's appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show. @1:30 PM 22
Daniel Nardicio on the Levi Johnston Media Circus @1:50 PM
Playgirl's Daniel Nardicio (who, for the record, does indeed throw a really good party) very graciously responds to former Playgirl editor Jessanne Collins', who wrote here yesterday that his slagging off of the since-fired staff of the magazine was out of line : "I shot off at the mouth about them and it was childish and they deserved better." Related! His thoughts on the Levi Johnston nude modeling brouhaha: "this whole media circus is one crazy, fun, mind altering baby step in the right direction for Playgirl and frankly, for me." Oh this modern age! 1
Jessanne Collins: The Truth About 'Playgirl' and Levi Johnston @2:30 PM
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of having Levi Johnston's penis thrust into my consciousness every time I read the news. And believe me, I've got a high tolerance for explicit visuals—I was Playgirl's managing editor until the print magazine folded last year, leaving in its place the softcore subscription website that's been publicly courting Sarah Palin's would've-been son-in-law for months for a shoot that's scheduled to take place later this week. It's not that I'm bitter. More power to Playgirl if it can ride the brawn of a small town teen father back into the limelight, and more power to small town teen fathers who can make their mark on the world with their undeniably virile genitalia.
Really, I'd be happy for both of them if I weren't so alarmed at the way history is being rewritten in the midst of the media shitstorm surrounding this moment—and the fact that no news outlet has accurately reported who's really behind Playgirl's big comeback. READ MORE 39
Levi Johnston's Nuts Earning Their Keep @11:45 AM
"The $800 million domestic pistachio industry still hasn't recovered from the recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios after last April's salmonella contamination scare. Sales are off upwards of 20% for the year." Solution? A $15 million, nationwide, "often sexually risqué marketing campaign that's made to go viral online." I guess we bit (hahaha, get it?), but whatever: They are using Palin-child impregnator Levi Johnston to sell pistachios. Is this the "new normal" everyone's talking about? 14
Levi Johnston's Sarah Palin Article Simplified @3:57 PM
I just read "Me and Mrs. Palin," in which young Levi Johnston "tells Vanity Fair his story about life with the Palin family-with whom he lived for two months after the election-over the course of his two-and-a-half-year relationship with Bristol." There are many surprising revelations in its pages; you could say that "he turns a number of commonly held beliefs about the former governor-the purportedly loving mother, devoted wife, and prolific hunter-upside down." (Particularly if you write teasers for Vanity Fair.) I suggest you go out and buy a copy!
Still, there was something rather troubling about the article: Almost none of the words within it were more than two syllables long. While the article is described as an "as told to" piece, it has clearly been shaped to give a more "authentic" feel, an authenticity which apparently excludes the use of big words. But why stop at two syllables? Wouldn't it be even more authentic if every word, excluding proper nouns, that came out of Levi Johnston's mouth were only one syllable? You can be the judge of that. READ MORE 66
Guest Op Ed by Sarah Palin, Unemployed Alaskan @12:30 PM
From time to time, The Awl offers its space to normal, everyday people with a perspective on national issues. Today we give this space to Sarah Palin, who was a Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket in the most recent national election, so she might address Levi Johnston, the father of her daughter's baby. Palin's current occupation is: homemaker.
Hey Guy Who is the Father of My Daughter's Miracle,
I know we have seen things from viewpoints as well as purviews that are maybe staggered on varying differentials, and that I posses the wisdom of someone who was a "hand-picked" public candidate for a high profile job, after having served in that capacity for the state in which we both reside, and… you get drunk at bonfires. (And are now, according to the media, engaged in a sexual cougar relationship with an unfunny redhead who prides herself on her low position on the entertainment totem pole.) READ MORE 7
Levi Johnston Will Bring Down Sarah Palin, Maybe @1:37 PM
Sarah Palin thought she was going to be brought down by the vast left-wing conspiracy, but it turns out she has bigger problems closer to home! Ayiyiyi! Because it's not very evangelical anti-sexianity of you to allow your teenage daughter's boyfriend to, um, MOVE IN. He told the Early Show today: "They said I didn't live there. [They say] I 'stayed' there. I was like, 'Okay, whatever you want to call it' – I had all my stuff there. So, if you wanna call it staying there, that's fine." Now Piper and that other 14-year-old harlot daughter, whatsherface, are all pissed because slutty Bristol ruined their chances of ever having dirty rec-room sex while their mom and hunky dad were upstairs. 1
